On June 9, 1941, Deputy Sheriff Charles L. Goad, a 56-year-old male officer with the Crittenden County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas, set out on what must have seemed like a familiar duty near West Memphis: helping keep the peace in the fragile aftermath of a broken marriage. He had been serving the county for 17 years, long enough to understand how quickly a domestic situation could turn, yet his role that day was simple on its face—escort a woman back to the house she had shared with her estr
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